Furthermore, how do you distil your key achievements so that an audience is totally engaged by an inspiring narrative that showcases rather than highlights your platform?
Above all, how do you motivate an audience of 900-plus to invest, emotionally and professionally, in your work?
This was our brief when invited to support Rotary Day at the United Nations in New York. We are very proud of our relationship with Rotary International and Dr Susan Laverick was delighted to once again support Rotary Day at the United Nations.
Throughout Rotary’s 75-year history with the United Nations, Rotarians have helped people displaced by war, famine and climate disaster. This year, Rotary recognised six humanitarians as Rotary’s People of Action for outstanding projects that are devising community-based solutions to the global refugee crisis.
The honorees and their projects included:
- Dr Bernd Fischer – the integration of refugee women into German society.
- Vanderlei Lima Santana – humanitarian aid to Venezuelan refugees.
- Hasina Rahman – nutrition services for starving Rohingya children in Bangladesh.
- Ace Robin – disaster relief and housing for people displaced by earthquakes in Lombok, Indonesia.
- Ilge Karancak-Splane – education and integration project in Turkey for Syrian refugee children.
- Lucienne Heyworth – delivering education curriculum in times of emergency, Middle East.
Over a period of three weeks, we worked with the honorees to craft, refine and prepare their 2-minute speeches, because even the most seasoned speakers often struggle with this most challenging of tasks.
Training culminated with a session devoted to the delivery of high impact speeches in New York.
It was a great pleasure to see each honoree deliver polished and powerful presentations on Rotary Day at the United Nations.
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